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FOOD

Maldivian cuisine is tasty and particularly interesting considering so many dishes have similar ingredients yet taste unique. The staple diet is rice and garudhiya, a fish broth. It may appear bland and boring to the new comer, but the taste is immediately enhanced with a dash of thick fish paste and a spicy side-dish of onion, lime and chilli. Another popular dish is roshi (unleavened bread) and mas huni, a mixture of grated coconut, fish, lime and chilli which is eaten as a snack or main meal. Mild creamy curries made from ground curry pastes, fish and locally grown vegetables, such as breadfuit, pumpkin, sweet potato and eggplant, are delicious.

Teashop Temptations For most visitors, the highlights of the local cuisine are the sweet and savoury snacks which are served in all the teashops in Male’, cooked for special occasions on far flung islands and occasionally served on the resorts. The savoury snacks are usually a mixture of smoked tuna, grated coconut, lime juice, onion and chilli, while the sweet snacks are concoctions of four, sugar, eggs and a few generous slurps of coconut honey. It is quite amazing that they all look and taste so different. Here is a selection to wet the appetite:

Savouries
Fihunu mas Fish brushed with chilli paste and cooked slowly over hot coals
Gulha Fish mixture wrapped in a pastry ball and deep fried
Kavaabu Deep fried fish rissole
Keemia Deep fried fish roll, the local answer to a sausage roll
Kulhi bis Fish mixture wrapped in egg-shaped pastry, steamed and turned in a thick, creamy curry paste (eaten with a spoon)
Kulhi Borkibaa Mildly spiced fishcake
Bajiya Slightly sweet fish mixture wrapped in triangular shaped pastry and deep fried
Theluli Bambukeyo Strips of breadfruit, deep fried until golden brown on the outside and soft and mushy in the middle
Theluli Kavaabu Fish rissole dipped in bright yellow batter and deep fried
Theluli mas Chunks of fish brushed with a chilli-onion garlic paste and fried
Sweets
Banas Small sweet bread rolls
Bondi White, finger-long coconut sticks
Bondi-baiy Sticky rice custard
Foni borkibaa Glutinous cake
Foni folhi Thick pikelets
Keyku Fluffy plain cake
Roas paan Slices of bread dipped in egg and sugar then fried
Suji Drink made with semolina, coconut milk, sultanas, nuts, sugar and a dash of cinnamon and cardamom

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